We provide advice, develop strategies, and offer support for enabling you and your organisation to thrive while making scholarly, cultural, and educational resources openly accessible.
Information Power’s Open Access Services are designed to support individuals, institutions, and organizations in adopting, implementing, and promoting successful open access practices. We provide advice, develop strategies, and offer support for enabling you and your organisation to thrive while making scholarly, cultural, and educational resources openly accessible.
Impact of Information Power
By working with Information Power, institutions and individuals can:
- Enhance the visibility and impact of research.
- Ensure compliance with OA policies.
- Promote equitable access to knowledge.
- Build sustainable models for long-term OA success.
- Improve transparency and trust.
An effective open access strategy requires commitment, collaboration, and adaptability to meet the evolving needs of the research and education community. Successful OA practices can enable organizations to maximize the impact and reach of their contributions to global knowledge.
Below is further information on specific services available to advise, support and develop you and your organization:
- Strategic Guidance
- Help institutions develop, implement, and evolve open access policies and strategies.
- Advise on aligning OA efforts with organizational goals and missions.
- Policy Development
- Assist in drafting institutional or funder open access mandates.
- Provide guidance on compliance with national or international OA policies.
- Recommend licensing options (e.g., Creative Commons) for open resources.
- Infrastructure Support
- Guide the development or improvement of institutional repositories.
- Recommend platforms and tools for hosting open access materials.
- Ensure adherence to technical standards for accessibility and interoperability.
- Publishing Support
- Advise learned societies and others in their renewal negotiations with larger publishing partners.
- Advise authors on choosing open access publishing options (e.g., OA journals, hybrid models).
- Help negotiate author rights and agreements with publishers.
- Provide insights on OA revenue models and business options.
- Funding and Budgeting
- Identify and secure funding for open access initiatives, including grant writing.
- Assist in the creation of governance and funding models to sustain open access efforts over time.
- Open Data and Open Science
- Support researchers in sharing data openly using FAIR principles (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Reusable).
- Recommend platforms for data sharing and open peer review.
- Compliance and Reporting
- Help researchers and institutions meet compliance requirements of funders’ open access policies.
- Provide tools and frameworks for monitoring and reporting on OA initiatives’ effectiveness.
- Community Building
- Facilitate collaboration between researchers, institutions, librarians/consortia, publishers, and policymakers to advance OA.
- Connect organizations with global and regional open access networks.
- Ethics and Equity
- Ensure that OA initiatives address issues of equity, diversity, and inclusion.
- Promote the accessibility of resources to underrepresented and underserved communities.
Who We Work With:
- Universities and Research Institutions
- Libraries
- Publishers
- Funding Agencies
- Nonprofits and NGOs
You can find out more information about Open Access Strategies and Open Access Content here.
Working with Information Power
If you’d like to work with Information Power or want to discuss how we can support your organization, please do not hesitate to contact us below. We look forward to working with you.
Email: info@informationpower.co.uk
Phone: Monday – Friday from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM (GMT) on +44 (0)7305795887.
Bluesky: @wisealic.bsky.social
Twitter: @InformationPowr, @wisealic
